MLB / Players

Rube Ellis

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 170 lb

BornNovember 17, 1885 · Downey, CA, USA

MLB debutApril 15, 1909

Final gameOctober 6, 1912

Seasons4 (1909–1912)

St. Louis Cardinals 1909–1912

Percentile snapshot

1911 season — qualified batters

155

97.2

646

82.4

555

80.6

41.7

139

47.2

52.8

66.7

40.7

RBI

65.7

77.8

16.7

23.1

.250

15.7

OBP

.332

22.2

SLG

.337

23.1

OPS

.669

25.9

wRC+

89.2

OPS+

88.1

wOBA

.327

23.1

sWAR

0.5

21.3

of 109 qualified 1911 batters (min 489 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

4.7

78.6

sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.

Season by season

Batting

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1909	149	637	575	76	154	10	9	3	46	54	76	18	.268	.334	.332	.666	109.4	109.0	.330	2.1
1910	142	632	550	87	142	18	8	4	54	62	70	25	.258	.339	.342	.681	100.3	99.5	.336	1.4
1911	155	646	555	69	139	20	11	2	66	66	64	9	.250	.332	.337	.669	89.2	88.1	.327	0.5
1912	109	352	305	47	82	18	2	4	33	34	36	6	.269	.342	.380	.723	97.2	97.5	.346	0.7

Career totals

555

2,267

1,985

279

517

RBI

199

216

246

.2605

OBP

.3360

SLG

.3436

OPS

.6796

A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.

Best games

Batting

Date	Game	AB	R	H	3B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1912-05-05	CIN @ STL Gameday	5	3	4	1	2	4	0	12
1911-07-06	STL @ PHI Gameday	5	2	4	2	1	0	1	11
1910-08-06	STL @ SF Gameday	5	2	5	0	1	3	0	8
1909-09-26	LAD @ STL Gameday	5	2	3	1	1	0	0	8
1910-08-30	LAD @ STL Gameday	4	1	4	1	0	0	1	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1909-04-14	STL @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1909-04-15	STL @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1909-04-16	STL @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1909-04-17	STL @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1909-04-18	STL @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.